Thanks! Since my students liked it, I made other random rap videos (see links at PiRap.com).
One student posted about the Pi Rap on a popular teen/tween site … and I got 20,000 views overnight. But I decided to eschew a rap-star career. My students needed me! 😎
Beyond absurd indeed! Fortunately, a contractor who was doing some unrelated work for us got the cable out of the way.
“Age shouldn’t be such a big deal.
You’re only as old as you feel.”
Well, that’s all good and fine,
But I feel ninety-nine;
Even shoe-tying is an ordeal.
(Only on *some* mornings … so far.)
As kids, my siblings and I didn’t care for this dish — we called it “Potatoes, augh, rotten”.
Questlove’s recent film about him, “Sly Lives!”, blew me away. It’s got insights by many insiders, plus great performance footage.
Sly was such an innovator, both musically and socially. I never realized, for example, how much Prince owed to Sly, in both his music and the composition of his band.
I took my little sister to see Bowie on his “Serious Moonlight” tour that year. Fantastic showman, brilliant show.
If you like Jane Eyre, let me warmly recommend Anne Bronte’s own sprawling epic, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. A different, but similarly compelling, tale of a woman battling sexist strictures of that time.
A few years back, a local synagogue installed bollards by the front door, to prevent anyone from driving into the building.
How sad/crazy that this was felt to be necessary … and that apparently, in this day and age, it IS necessary.
Happy #PiDay indeed! This won’t help with comprehension, but I once made a “Pi Rap” video to amuse my math students, and it briefly went semi-viral (tens of thousands of views):
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It’s all right. 🙃
This math teacher is a bit perplexed by the #nytspellingbee rejecting the common statistical term DECILE. #spellingbee
I wonder whether the town’s name was the source for Lord Lowborough, a character in Anne Brontë’s novel _The Tenant of Wildfell Hall_.
Also, I went to school with someone whose surname was Lufburrow. Perhaps his ancestors lived in that town.
(This comment is not meant to mock a typo.) I love the idea of “chant gpt”. I’m imagining hearing awful algorithmic advice in a sonorous, drawn-out Gregorian voicing.
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My 4th-grade teacher played this for us in 1970. It expanded my little mind.
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Often, an SSB & J is the best (for those of us who prefer sunflower seed butter) … but it isn’t redolent of childhood the way a PB & J can be.
You’re welcome! If you want to read one person’s views on the strengths and drawbacks of many other Jane Eyre adaptations, please visit my website: JaneEyre.net.
My favorite Jane Eyre film is the 2006 BBC dramatization, with Toby Stephens as Rochester and — more importantly — Ruth Wilson’s brilliant, unrivaled portrayal of Jane.
I learn this lesson each night, but it fades by the following night.
The “intellectual dominance” bit reminds me of this supposed exchange between a math professor and a college classmate of mine who was a titled player.
Professor, seeing student’s attempt to solve a math problem: “Don’t you know *anything*?”
Student: “Why don’t we get a chessboard and find out?”
In both publishing and hockey, a knowledge of blue lines will make you seem qualified.
In Manhattan, from Upper to Lower,
There’s a roar like one massive snow blower.
I just can’t wait for spring,
When the weather should bring
The less ear-splitting sound of a mower.
Verizon’s agent replies: “I have checked with my technical team, and they informed me that we need to schedule a tech visit. There is a wait time of 15 months.”
ME: Hey #Verizon, one of your wires has fallen and is blocking our driveway. Help!
THEM:
I try to reach Genius without seeing any hints. If I get well past Genius (maybe a couple times a month), I check total word count and total score to see if I’m close enough to make a push toward Queen Bee worthwhile.
Nothing like the rush of finding an impressively long pangram in the #nytspellingbee … accompanied by the shock of seeing that familiar word not be accepted.
You could even say those two emotions are CONCOMITANT.
#spellingbee
“Get Together” — The Youngbloods
My go-to when I need a dash of hope for humanity.
Playing “blindfold chess” does look impressive, though pretty much any master-level player can do it.
Using an actual blindfold adds more of an aura to it.
When I was grocery shopping yesterday, the store’s audio system played this song.
I loved hearing it, but I wondered whether someone had decided that such songs are now “easy listening” music for the older shoppers (people like me).
Shirley is amusing, though readers must muddle through plot lines about the Luddite movement to reach the typical Bronte character studies.
I actually think Charlotte’s prose is at its most brilliant in Villette. I just find the story less captivating than Jane Eyre, and bits of it are in French.
I thought Hinds’s Rochester was too raging/tempestuous, even more than the book character. Maybe the screenwriter or director made that choice. I haven’t seen him in other films.